Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...progress of dentistry during the past sixty years has been extraordinary. Indeed, dentistry as a profession requiring a wide range of varied knowledge and a high degree of skill of eye and hand may almost be said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable...
...obvious that the profession of dentistry in its improved state requires an elaborate educational preparation, a preparation which must provide opportunity to acquire a large amount of varied knowledge, and a high degree of ocular and manual skill. Therefore a dental school is a proper part of a university...
...causes or sources of that great evil, caries. It desires to take part in learning what diet will best develop sound teeth in childhood, and maintain them in adult years. In short, reasonably content with the applications it has made during the past sixty years of acquired knowledge and skill, it aspires to win more knowledge through the efforts of its own investigators. The dental profession aspires to take part in the noble search for new truth...
...more than anything else to make the nation what it is. Socialism is self-contradictory and opposed to deep-rooted and ineradicable human instincts. If everything is accessible to all, why should man strive for something that will not be remunerative to him? Each is proud of his own skill, knowledge, and ability. Socialism in the United States would drive those of superior qualities out of the country, to where such qualities would have a free chance...
...crude taxicab which was in use nearly a thousand years ago. Pictures were shown of the Great Wall, which was completed in 204 B.C., and which has never been surpassed by any architectural feat in the history of the world. The Great Canal is another monument of the skill of the ancient Chinese...